Aerospace Textiles

22nd Jul 2021

American spacecraft company Lockheed Martin has opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center in Titusville, Florida, US. It features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA's Orion spacecraft programme and ultimately, future space exploration.

20th Jul 2021

NASA is working on new deployable structures and materials technologies for solar sail propulsion systems for future low-cost deep space missions. Just as a sailboat is powered by wind in a sail, solar sails use the pressure of sunlight for propulsion. Data obtained from NASA’s ACS3 mission will help develop future larger-scale composite solar sail...

12th Jul 2021

A lightweight camera drone, developed using Hexcel HexPly carbon fibre prepregs, has successfully made its maiden flight. The composite drone was developed by students from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Wels with composite materials supplied by Hexcel Neumarkt in Austria. Hexcel is a leader in advanced composites technologies.

2nd Jul 2021

Deutsche Aircraft, which is building a new 40-seat turbo prop aircraft, is working with GKN Aerospace for the aircraft’s Empennage production. GKN Aerospace, the global tier 1 aerospace supplier, is a leader in aerostructures and is aligned with Deutsche Aircraft in advanced technologies. The aircraft is being developed on the principles of...

2nd Jul 2021

Solvay is collaborating with Italian UAM company Novotech. Through this partnership, Solvay will provide access to its range of thermoset, thermoplastic composites and adhesive materials as well as dedicated technical support to Novotech to help it develop the structure of the hybrid Seagull water landing aircraft second prototype, due to fly late 2021.

1st Jul 2021

Solvay, a science company with technologies impacting daily life, has unveiled AeroPaste 1006, 1009 and 1100 adhesive pastes and BR 179 non-chromate primer. These aerospace adhesive and surfacing technology innovations increase part assembly efficiency and also enable unmatched processing flexibility, making them ideal for ever-increasing production...

29th Jun 2021

NLR has built the largest known single thermoplastic piece for bottom half of the fuselage structure for The Clean Sky 2 Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD), part of the EU’s Clean Sky 2 initiative. Through the Clean Sky 2 initiative, the aerospace industry is looking to transition from aluminium to next-gen carbon-fibre reinforced composites.

15th Jun 2021

Airbus’ Aerospace Integrated Research and Test Centre (AIRTeC) has recently been launched by Kwasi Kwarteng, UK’s secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy in Filton, Bristol. AIRTeC is a £40 million, state-of-the-art research and testing facility jointly funded by the government's ATI programme and European Aerospace company...

14th Jun 2021

Teijin’s Tenax carbon fibre prepreg, which has been developed especially for aircraft applications, is being used in part of a nacelle, or streamlined housing, for next generation aircraft engine for Airbus. A prototype of the nacelle part, which Nikkiso Co is producing for Airbus’s Propulsion of Tomorrow project, will be delivered to Airbus by 2021...